Tomorrow I’m going to start a new series of blogs titled “Half the Battle,” in which I will inform you of the answers to some of the questions you’ve been trained not to ask. HtB will be kind of like the Big Ponder videos I’ve done, but more informative, more detailed, and more useful.
The premise of the series is this:
The world is a complex place, with many mysterious and hidden dangers that the Powers That Be would prefer you didn’t know about. Ignorance is bliss, but knowing is Half the Battle!
If you have any topics you’d like me to cover in an HtB article, leave a comment or send me an email.
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On Sunday I converted this site from a custom-built PHP-based Content Management System (CMS), which I coded myself, to a self-hosted WordPress installation. As I’ve mentioned, the current “design” for the site is temporary (which is why I’m using the “in Exile” subtitle in the header). Some time in the (hopefully) near future the site will receive a professional makeover with a custom theme, but for now it’s going to look pretty much like this.
With the change, several different areas of the site were affected. Here are some of the things that were lost, and some of the things that were gained: Read the rest of this entry…
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I’ve taken down some of my fiction–most notably, the Wesley Chesterson and O Man sections, as well as a short story or two–while I figure out what I want to do with it. I’ve been thinking about strange things like “My Audience” and “What People Are Interested in Reading”, and while I’m in the process of mulling over those things I’m going to narrow the scope of the content on the site a little.
Some of the fiction I’ve hidden away may resurface at some point. Whether that’s on TPB or somewhere else remains to be seen.
If you really, REALLY want to read some Wesley Chesterson in the meantime, leave a comment or send me an email.
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I found this article at http://newsabouttheenglishlanguage.com and thought I’d share it.
NewsAboutTheEnglishLanguage.com — March 20, 2009
Combating the Devolution of the English Language
A coalition of linguists from North America and the United Kingdom today announced that they will no longer support the use of the word “dozen” in the English language. The group’s given reason for this boycott is the “vocabularistic devolution” of the term. Over the course of past decades, the Clear Language Alliance claims, “dozen” has come to be too closely associated with the similar-sounding word “doesn’t,” a word that has clear negative connotations.
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